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Mikael Thalen @mikaelthalen.bsky.social · 58m

EXCLUSIVE: A cell-site simulator, commonly referred to as an IMSI-catcher or "Stingray," may have been used at the ICE facility in Portland.

Analysis of cellular signals in the area showed phones receiving abnormal spikes in requests for their unique identifiers. san.com/cc/exclusive...

Exclusive: Fake cellphone tower likely surveilled protesters at Portland ICE facility

Law enforcement officials may have deployed a secretive cellphone surveillance technology last weekend at Portland’s ICE facility.

san.com

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The End of the World Party, PhD @endoftheworldparty.bsky.social · 4h

ICE are just nazis except a lot worse.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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Ben @vagabending.bsky.social · 8h

It really boggles the mind that these billionaires have all the money and power in the world and the only thing they can envision is a police state run by AI and a penal colony on mars. Truly deranged.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 8h

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

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The End of the World Party, PhD @endoftheworldparty.bsky.social · 4h

The coming economic storm in the US is so obvious but we're walking right into this insane confluence of financial destruction between climate change (esp. relating to insurance), the immigration crackdowns, tarrifs, and maybe most of all, the AI bubble. None of this is sustainable.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 5h

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 11, 2025 ~ Everything is fine.

"The invisible gas can be seen in streams of bubbles originating on the seafloor of Antarctica's Ross Sea ... describing the mechanism as 'seemingly widespread' throughout the region... "

abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Researchers find methane leaking out of cracks in Antarctic seabed

One of the most potent greenhouse gas emissions has been discovered seeping out of cracks of the Antarctic sea floor, researchers have found.

abcnews.go.com

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The End of the World Party, PhD @endoftheworldparty.bsky.social · 5h

Destroying America and the modern globalized economy will be the best thing for the environment that any president has ever done, but it still ends in total biospheric collapse.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 5h

Next to where I’m working in Iceland is a whaling station. They didn’t slaughter any whales this year because the Japanese economy tanked, thanks to Trump’s idiotic actions.

So…Trump saves whales*. 🫠

*He also saved a lot of whales by cancelling offshore wind. 🙃

arcticportal.org/ap-library/n...

A dramatic landscape featuring a prominent rocky mountain under overcast skies, with a coastal area in the foreground. In the distance, a few buildings are visible near the water's edge.

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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 5h

New report examines fossil fuel ties of dozens of Trump administration hires #Climate

New report examines fossil fuel ties of dozens of Trump administration hires

Public Citizen and the Revolving Door Project found 43 fossil-fuel industry insiders among nominees and appointees to agencies charged with enforcing energy and environmental policy.

insideclimatenews.org

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 5h

ANOTHER 38c day in CHINA

Brutal heat day and night continues in this insanely hot October,a month which is rewriting history.
Next days temperatures will increase even further, breaking dozens/hundreds of records again with peaks close to 40C.

Map credit:Jim Jiang

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 6h

Russ Vought wasn't lying when he said he wanted to inflict "trauma" on our public servants.

This is what he is doing...with RFK Jr.'s permission at HHS. Last night, they destroyed our nation's ability to track and report emerging diseases/potential pandemics, among other things.

This cannot stand.

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 3d

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Serene Doomer @serenaribena.bsky.social · 6h

'Israel’s control over occupied waters in Syrian territories highlights the intersection of water, ag., & security interests which result in humanitarian & water instability issues. 🇮🇱’s water hegemony is an integral aspect of 🇮🇱’s influence in the ME.'

www.nextcenturyfoundation.org/occupied-wat...

Occupied Waters: Israel-Syria Water Conflict - Next Century Foundation

Israel’s control over occupied waters in Syrian territories highlights the intersection of water, agriculture, and security interests which result in

www.nextcenturyfoundation.org

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 16h

You dont get rapes of this scale without an official blind eye

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 19h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Kade @namelessactivist.bsky.social · 14h

'They treated us like animals' - Inside the epicentre of deportations in New York City au.news.yahoo.com/treated-us-a... via @@YahooNewsAU
TODAYS AMERICA, THE US WILL NEVER RECOVER FROM THIS. HOW ANY COUNTRY CAN STILL BE DEALING WITH AMERICA I JUST DON'T KNOW.

'They treated us like animals' - Inside the epicentre of deportations in New York City

Chaotic scenes have become routine in a federal immigration court in Manhattan.

au.news.yahoo.com

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 21h

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 17h

Anne Frank and Underground Railroad analogies write themselves.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 23h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 17h

I wonder how many ICE dudes read Anne Frank’s diary in high school and thought, “I’d have gotten her sooner.”

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Maya Media @mayamedia.bsky.social · 17h

Fvck this a$$hole in particular.

Heather Knight @heatherknightsf.bsky.social · 19h

For years, San Franciscans considered him the rare big-hearted billionaire. But days before his Dreamforce conference begins, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said he would support President Trump sending the National Guard to SF and that Trump is doing “a great job.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 19h

I love this image.

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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 22h

Disaster capitalism phase 1: profit from destroying Gaza

Disaster capitalism phase 2: profit from rebuilding Gaza

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WatchYourRepsSC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 20h

This is the worst I can remember without a massive hurricane blowing in. #ClimateChange folks.

WMBF News @wmbfnews.com · 20h

A look at the photos and videos of Friday's coastal flooding across the Grand Strand.

WATCH: Coastal flooding impacts Grand Strand communities

Coastal flooding impacted several communities across the Grand Strand on Friday.

www.wmbfnews.com

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 22h

This morning, masked Border Patrol agents violently pinned a longtime WGN-TV producer to the ground after detaining another unidentified male in Chicago, eventually arresting her and hauling her off in an unmarked silver van.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

WGN-TV producer violently detained during Chicago ICE enforcement action

A DHS spokesperson said that Debbie Brockman was placed under arrest for ‘assault on a federal law enforcement officer,’ claiming the WGN employee threw objects at the agent.

www.independent.co.uk

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 18h

New Orwellianism just dropped

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 19h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 1d

Remember, the Supreme Court okay’d this without explanation on the shadow docket

Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 1d

This is a crazy must-read from @nlanard.bsky.social:

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy

Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.

www.motherjones.com

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